In which troubles or problems hypnosis can be applied?

I’ve experienced that hypnosis is very helpful in every position about people like to win the golf and tennis match or to gain motivation for people to do exercises. To sum up in one sentence, hypnosis can be applied to control behaviors, to change thoughts and to control body by using the mind. 

Hypnosis also can be applied or is known to be applied for interesting wishes as follows:

1. To drink more water and to eat less sweet.

2. Not to add much salt in meal (to prevent this with hypnotic suggestions)

3. To remember where the wedding ring was left or lost.

4. Not to forget cleaning teeth before sleeping by the help of hypnotic inspirations.

5. To put less sweet in tea.

6. To remember clearly the face of a relative lost years ago and meet again.

7. To remember clearly the song listened and loved so much in childhood.

8. To leave the habit of turning a pen in hands.

9. To avoid tiredness and laziness of housewives during working.

10. When it is necessary, to be able to say people ‘no!’

11. To leave vegetarianism.  

12.  To overcome the fear of military service.

13. To be stingy to make money.

14. Not to leave the doors and drawers of cupboards.

15.  to be courageous to want extra money from your boss.

Prof.Dr. Adnan Ziyalar, in one of his hypnosis course at university, claimed that there is no area in life so that hypnosis can not be applied.

After interesting practices, now let’s look for the clinical usages of hypnosis:

-depression

-social phobia, agoraphobia, phobias of animal, height, plane, sea, dentist…etc

-stutter

-wetting at nights (enuresis, encopresis)

 -psychogenic ache failings.

 -obesity

 -anorexia

 -bulimia

 -addiction (drug, cigarettes)

 -panic attack

 -phobias

 -conversion failing

 -posttraumatic stress disorder

 -dissociates amnesia

 -sleepiness change

 -bruxism (pressing teeth)

 -psychosomatic disorder (Daniels, 1975)

 -conversion type headaches (carasso at al, 1985)

 -delusion (Berwick, Dougles, 1978)

 -sexual function disorder: impotence, vaginusmus

  -frigid (Cheak, 1976, 1976)

-illness of illness

-dissociative failings

-obsession

-eat nails (Bornstain, 1980)

-overeat

 -alexithymia and schizoids (Schraa and Dirks, 1981) & (Lewis, 1979)

 -psychogenic tremors (Fogel, 1976)

-incorrect reading (Rooyen, 1981)

 -borderline disorder(Baker, 1983)

 -hair pluck

 -chronic physical aches

 -painless childbirth

 -trigeminal neuralgia

 -blood pressure

 -asthma

 -allergic dermal illnesses

 -psoriasis

-migraine

 -cancer aches

 -surgical procedure 

 Scientific comparison of hypnotherapy and other psychotherapies

 When scientists (Smith, Glass and Miller1980 Kirsch 1990) compared the success of hypnosis in treatment with psychodynamic approach, they found that hypnotherapy is more successful by two times.

Kind of therapy	Average degree of effectiveness (effect-size)
Psikodinamik Terapi (Psychodynamic therapy)	0.69
Dinamik- Eklektik Terapi (Dynamic-eclectic therapy)	0.89
Adlerian therapy	0.62
Hypnotherapy (Hipnoterapi)	1.82
Danýþan Merkezli Terapi (Client-centered therapy)	0.62
Gestalt therapy	0.64
Rational-emotive therapy	0.68
Other cognitive therapies	2.38
Transactional therapy	0.68
Reality therapy	0.14
Systematic desensitization	1.05
Implosion	0.68
Behavior modification	0.73
Cognitive-behavioral therapy	1.13
Eclectic-behavioral therapy	0.89
Vocational-personal development	0.65
Undifferentiated counseling	0.28
Placebo treatment	0.56
Total	0.85

 

   Tuncay ÖZER Psychologist

 

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